A World at Risk: Unreliable Media and the Culture of Fear
by MONICA MARTIN M ad cow, avian and swine flu pandemics, international terrorism, counterterrorism and war, religious extremism, global warming, pollution and nuclear threats, economic crises caused, but not suffered, by financial liberalism: menaces that spread through the porous national frontiers of 21st-century globalization. It is not surprising that such a plurality of global threats, exploited by political and media discourses, have created a certain...
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